Opinion: Farming on ‘grease, spanners and mindless optimism’ - Farmers Weekly fwi.co.uk/news/opinion-f…

Opinion: Good to have a king who knows where his food comes from - Farmers Weekly fwi.co.uk/farm-life/opin…

I like having chilled out cattle but sometimes they can be quite unhelpful. Think they've got some sort of Just Stop Toppers event going on...

Cows are not the problem, and I'm sick of this blatant 'farmer-bashing', and the Unions need to stop pandering to this? Defend our industry, not go along with this lunacy. We are not China or Brazil, we are mostly responsible, shout about that.

Latest FW piece... all this talk of a "Right to Roam" in England and Wales makes this issue quite pressing (in my opinion)

Improve and standardise the design of Power Take Off Guards and set price - Sign the Petition! chng.it/GW6VhqYJ via Change.org UK

So if China & India accounts for more than half the worlds emissions surely the answer is to stop buying cheap mass produced goods from China & India if we really want to drop those huge numbers on a real global scale, not just the 1% we here in the uk produce? Genuine question.

Sitting in the Manitou pushing oats into the cleaner and reading Rory Stewart Politics On The Edge. I don't really "do" politics but it's a gripping read... also have to keep looking up the various characters who appear! Being an MP sounds a little short on fun...

I sometimes think this conference is simply designed to drive the last moderate Tories out. The Conservative Party was the traditional defender of small family farms and rural traditions. How is this globalised hormone-pumped rhetoric conservative?

Latest effort in Farmers Weekly . Delighted they let me keep the phrase "arse-kicking". Think that's a high point in my dubious writing career, to date...

🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 *Drum roll* We’re extremely proud to present our new #filmtrailer. Huge thanks to award-winning creative agency Chinagraph London for producing it for us. We hope you love it as much as we do. Feel free to leave comments on our YouTube bit.ly/3G3TLWi

Not sure about the title, but with aliens, dustbins and Elon Musk, hopefully there's something for everybody...

Latest effort... and I'm currently looking at the soil/ bits of the dung heap/ contents of the dogs' water bowl through a digital microscope. Hopefully it'll dry up one day and I can get on farming with slightly more knowledge of what's going on under the tractor tyres...

Opinion: Full marks for ‘educational access’ option - Farmers Weekly fwi.co.uk/news/opinion-f…

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Walk the South West Coast Path and stay somewhere unique 🥾 Stantyway Farm is a historic WW2 landmark that has been sensitively restored to provide comfortable off-grid accommodation for those exploring the Jurassic Coast 🌿 bit.ly/3K2UZ6O

Having a German football manager is "a dark day for England", according to the Daily Mail. In other news, here's the Mail's founder, Lord Rothermere (great-grandfather of the current owner) with a German friend.

OK I admit I was a bit cross with the RPA when I wrote this... But am I being unfair?